Adelaide Film Festival

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Adelaide Film Festival
LocationAdelaide, Australia
Founded2003
Awards received2021 Ruby Awards "Best Festival"
AwardsFeature Fiction Award
Feature Documentary Award
Don Dunstan Award
The Jim Bettison and Helen James Award
Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative
INSITE Award
AFTRS International VR Award
DirectorsMat Kesting
(2019–)
Amanda Duthie
(2012–2018)
Katrina Sedgwick
(2002–2011)
Hosted bySophie Hyde (patron)
Festival date23 October — 3 November 2024
Websiteadelaidefilmfestival.org

The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF, formerly ADLFF) is a film festival usually held for two weeks in mid-October in cinemas in Adelaide, South Australia. Originally presented biennially in March from 2003, since 2013 AFF has been held in October. Subject to funding, the festival has staged full or briefer events in alternating years; some form of event has taken place every year since 2015. From 2022 it takes place annually. It has a strong focus on local South Australian and Australian produced content, with the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF) established to fund investment in Australian films.

Established in 2003 as Adelaide International Film Festival, it dropped "International" from its title after the inaugural edition, as it dropped its FIAPF membership the following year. It was, however, the first film festival in Australia to introduce an international competition, as well as being the first to fund film production directly.

The festival hosts a number of awards, including the Don Dunstan Awards (for lifetime contrtibution); Best Feature Fiction; Best Feature Documentary; Bettison & James Award; and others. In 2017 the International Virtual Reality Award was launched by AFF in partnership with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), known as the AFTRS ADL Film Fest International VR Award.

The 2024 festival ran from 23 October to 3 November.